More evidence that plant-based diets are heart healthy. A new study by the American Heart Association has confirmed that a plant-based diet is heart healthy. The researchers followed more than 15,000 adults over the age of 45, between 2003-2013. They looked at their dietary patterns and the likelihood of developing heart disease in people with no previous history of heart disease. …
Food infection
Western diet and your immune system Every time you eat high fat, high sugar, high calorie and low fibre meal your immune system is stimulated to fight infection. Your immune system reacts to these foods as if you have a bacterial infection. There is a very strong inflammatory response to this type of diet. This diet may sound vaguely familiar. High …
Exercise in a pill
If you could replace exercise with a pill, would you? Think about it, because even if you don’t love to exercise you may be improving your health without realizing it. The current recommendations for exercise are 150 minutes per week. More is better. Up to 7 hours of exercise a week will improve your health. After 7 hours the benefits …
Are Mushrooms the Fountain of Youth?
Do you like mushrooms? They are one of those foods that people like, or don’t like. You are a mushroom fan or you are not. I have definitely been in the “not a fan” category for a long time. Then I read Dr. Greger’s book How Not to Die and one of his recommendations was to eat mushrooms regularly. I thought I …
Keto, is it worth it?
Ketogenic diets, do they live up to the promise? The latest food trend is the ketogenic diet. An extremely high-fat diet, which eliminates carbohydrates as a food group and relies mostly on fat as fuel. Following a keto diet means eating 80% fat, less than 5% carbohydrates and 15% protein. If your diet is less than 5% carbohydrates, then you …
Can you outrun stress?
You know the saying you can’t run away from your problems? Maybe you can. Or at least reduce the impact. Exercise, and particularly running, may erase the long-term effects of stress on your brain health. Exercise can prevent your brain from suffering the negative side-effects of chronic stress. We can’t always control our stress, but we can control how much we exercise. A …
How do you think about ageing?
How do you think about ageing? Do you think that age is inevitably linked with disease? I have been thinking about how we view ageing has changed over the last few years. Mostly because it is my birthday this week. I think of birthdays like a personal new year, a time to reflect on how the past year went and …
What is your Foodprint?
Food Footprint Do you want to know your environmental footprint from eating or not eating animal products? You can find out here. Americans consume the most meat, followed by Australia, Brazil, Canada, and China. Your food choices matter—not just for your health but also for the health of the planet. Americans consume 260 lbs of meat products per year. It takes …
Friends with Benefits
If you start eating better, everyone benefits. Regardless if you are the only one in your home on a weight loss program, everyone else benefits too. Weight Watchers funded a research study to see if losing weight was beneficial to other family members. Surprise, surprise your efforts at eating better benefits, everyone. This should not be a surprise. I have …
Moderation never works.
Everything in moderation. At some time you have heard that this is the way to eat well and stay slim. I don’t buy it, but then again I have never been that good at moderation. Maybe it doesn’t work for me or this is a rule other people can live by and maintain their weight. Maybe not. Calorie density or …
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